Your favourite 3D print filament

PLA and PETG mainly from Prusa (I have a Prusa i3 Mk3) but also use both as supplied by SUNLU.

FilaFlex40 from Filatech for tyres

@rong Does the Filaflex 40 material push through the extruder OK, I sometimes have problems with the Ninjaflex buckling between drive and extruder.

@pylonuk the few prints that I've done haven't been an issue, nozzle temp 220º and bed 60-75º. I don't use it too much and pick the models carefully as it is rather expensive!

I have two PRUSA MK2S printers built from kits. I have customised the firmware and use Prusaslicer. I started with PLA filament but having tried lots of different plastics including PMM, Nylon, polycarbonate, HIPS, ABS, PETG, TPE and TPU I have now standardised almost exclusively on PETG with occasional use of TPE, TPU and Nylon. I have found that EU-made filament is generally of better quality than Chinese but still use both depending on price and availability. There is so much choice available now but I have only used a few makes that I trust - better the devil you know? SUNLU was mentioned in another post but I have found big differences in quality just between different colours of their supposedly same PETG filament! One printed quite well with the manufacturer’s recommended settings and the the other was as stringy as hell and required a lot of fiddling with settings to get a satisfactory print.

These guys produce some decent quality filament, albeit it a bit more expensive Filamentive

I have a Dremel 3D40 and a Ender 5 and use Eryone fillerment. Both 210 for hotend and 60 for the bed on the Ender and find it a very good and consistant filament. 

@stuart-willis Thanks for the info, would you care to share any photo's of your printed models?

I think Mark has got a 3D40 or 3D45. Dremel are out of that business now.

Hi all 

I have a rather old CTC dual nozzel printer with one nozzel removed now and quite a few home grown 3d printed mods. Works really well but the print volume is a bit limited. It has proved to be a great £200 investment and has had a lot of use and got me into 3D printing. Mostly use pla but the foaming light weight pla looks very interesting. Recently I made a 3D printed mould for a vac moulded canopy which worked pretty well.

Good fun 

Hi Barry Some pictures as requested

Theses are of bits from my 1/4 scale Se5a.

The barrel of the gun is plastic water pipe not 3d printed.

I purchased the stl file for the pilot. I choped it a

bout in Tinkercad then pri

nted it with zero infill which made it very light. (i did not paint the face a chap at my club

did)

Chaps, do you need to change the drive wheels or nozzle when using some materials, as I am reading that some (like carbon filled) are much more abrasive than PLA etc. and can wear the standard printer parts quickly?  I've just acquired a Prusa mk3S and am new to all this.

@john-minchell it is advisable to use harder nozzles when printing with the harder filaments as the standard nozzles will wear out. I suppose it depends on how much printing you will do with these filaments, in the 3 years I've had my i3 I have only printed 3 parts with carbon enhanced filament so hardly cause for concern!

@rong Thanks Ron that eases my concerns.  So I should be ok with ABS etc. using the standard nozzle.

@john-minchell be careful printing with ABS as it gives off toxic fumes!

Read this https://help.prusa3d.com/article/abs_2058